moritz.zoechling Posted October 2, 2014 Share Posted October 2, 2014 Article: Breaking News! West Irondequoit physics students have calculated the acceleration due to gravity! In a physics lab students participated in, they used only a stopwatch to find the acceleration due to gravity. They dropped a ball from the ceiling of their classroom and used only the initial velocity, height of ceilings and the time it took for the ball to drop from the ceiling to find the acceleration due to gravity with an equation. When calculating this, they had only 3.98% error from the actual 9.81 m/s2. They got 10.2 m/s2 for the acceleration due to gravity. The students that preformed this lab had a breaking discovery that could change physics forever. By being able to calculate the acceleration due to gravity with only a simple stopwatch, physicists around the world can now do the same. This new strategy makes calculating this acceleration with simple algebra. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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